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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1979-06-27, Page 5IT WASN'T RAINING BUT .. — Margaret Grace Jarvis and Dawn Marie Engel of Brussels decided to take precautionary measures just in case as they walked to school one day last week. (Brussels Post Photo) LOW PRICE OR... REPLACEMENT FILM • Ca ALL R II l‘ifG E XP. F k S DEVELOPED Fop 399 & PRINTED oNly ax +M Anti ALL 20 EXP. t4‘/COLOR NEG.FILMS DEVELOPED cop, 0599 & PRINTED O MAY.Nu m n* ALL 12 EXP. ti/COLOR NEG.FILMS DEVELOPED PRINTED 04 9 9 PY. A REPLACEMENT HIM oomum ?0 ,4 110-R N EG. 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Bill Woodley, the nursing director at Wingham and District Hospital, is co- ordinating the establishment of the club and two students hired for the summer with the help of a federal grant are doing the groundwork. Hopefully the club will be ready to go with its first members by the middle of this month. Mr. Woodley said the main objective in the form- ation of a stroke club is to help persons who have suffered strokes regain their stamina through social and physical activities. Club members and their volunteer helpers would get together for five or six hours one day a week to run through a program of exercises and other activities. He is interested in social as well as physical In preparation for the pre- serving season order a copy of "Frozen Foods" and "Home Canning Ontario Fruits and Vegetables" from Information Branch, Ontario Minisgry of Agriculture and Food, Legislative Buildings, Toronto, Ont. M7A 1A5. They are free to Ontario residents. rehabilitation so in addition to the exercises the sessions could feature crafts, films, card games and other social activities. There will also be health and diet instruction and suggestions how to arrange furniture and adjust eating utensils to make life easier for someone re- cuperating from a storke. The volunteer workers will play a big role in determining whether or not the program will be a success and Mr. Woodley is hoping enough people will come forward so they can be paired up with club members on a one-to- one basis. Ideally the same volunteer would continue working with a club member , so they can get to know each other, he said. He noted volunteers will probably have to be either retired people or housewives since the club will meet during the daytime. Some training would be nice but it isn't essential, he added, and some people who have them- selves had strokes but aren't badly disabled could become volunteers, encouraging others with their own experiences. Volunteers should be physically fit and healthy. -Mr. Woodley said the reason for deciding to form a stroke club is that other Do not put butter on minor burns. Minor first degree burns, St. John's Ambulance tells us, should be soaked in cold water or held under cold running wat- er until the pain is gone. Then leave it alone. Do not cover it. gorups already have access to services locally but there is, nothing nearby for stroke victims. A stroke club has been operating weekly at. Huronview in Clinton but getting there is difficult for many people from this area. He also noted that currently there is no speech therapy available in this area and said the club hopes to devote special attention to developing alternate com- munication skills, such as a symbol board, for stroke victims with speech difficulties. The two students, Susan Gurney of Palmerston and Dan Blum of Waterloo, started work last week. Their job is to get the program running and make sure it can continue with volunteers after they leave at the end of the summer. Miss Gurney has a degree in social work Waterloo. They will have an office in the Nursing Assistants Training Centre for the summer and anyone interested Lti being a club member or volunteer is invited to contact them there through 'the hospital switch board, 357-3210. There is no membership fee to join the club, although there will be a nominal charge for the cost of the noon meal provided through the hospital cafeteria. . The club will meet in the nursing school during the summer and will have to look for alternate accommodation in the fall. The two local conservation authorities have agreed to become involved with mun- icipalities and their eng- ineers at an earlier stage in discussing local erosion problems in drain reports coming before township councils. Representatives from the conservation authorities made this commitment at a recent municipal drain man- agement seminar held in Exeter and hosted by the authorities. The purpose of the sem- inar was to discuss municipal drain design, construction and maintenance and to consider more effective eros- ion controls. About 120 people attend the day long -seminar includ- ing Norman Alexander of Londesboro, a longtime ad- vocate of erosion controls; Carl Schenk from the Min- istry of Environment office in London and Sam Bradshaw, assistant engineer with the Clinton OMAF office. The seminar was a ex- change between the various agencies with the respon- sibility for_ municipal drains in the Ausable-Bayfield and Maitland Valley watersheds. In addition to reviewing the research now being car- ried out on municipal drain- age, the seminar audience was shown some innovative methods of transporting water efficiently to reduce soil erosion. A discussion followed on the need for more consider- ation of the agricultural benefits and environmental costs in the planning stage of the proposed construction, or repair and improvement of municipal drainage works. Household tidbits second year of a kinesiology Conservation group municipalities and Mr. Blum in the course at the University of w ill work together on drains